Star Race
Alternative title: Starace  (On Cover)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Here is another of the earliest games released on the C64 and I'd say it's fairly typical for it's time.

The game has 5 different stages:

Stage 1: simply avoid the alien ships until your score reaches 249 - simples!
Stage 2: Avoid the meteors. Your ship can shoot, but it has no effect.
Stage 3: Move left and right to stay in the tractor beam.
Stage 4: Hit the enemy ship 20 times with your cannons; this is probably the hardest stage given that the mothership hurtles towards you at high speed even though you hit it 20 times.
Stage 5: Avoid the asteroids and land on the docking bay.

Mercifully short, the game simply repeats after stage 5.
